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An Historical Review of Electroconvulsive Therapy 电休克疗法的历史回顾
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/JJP.008.2.007
B. Wright
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Psychiatric Training: The Culture and Its Contradictions by T.M. Luhrmann 《精神病学训练:文化及其矛盾》作者:T.M. Luhrmann
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/jjp.016.1.009
C. Myers
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A Psychiatric Presentation of Wernicke's Encephalopathy Following Intravenous Fluid Administration 静脉输液后韦尼克脑病的精神病学表现
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/JJP.010.2.003
D. O. D. Geenans
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The Usefulness of Neutrality 中立的有用性
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/JJP.005.2.002
Julia Jones Zawatsky
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Countertransference and Inpatient Psychiatry: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects 反移情与住院精神病学:理论与临床
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/JJP.006.2.010
Edward Kim
{"title":"Countertransference and Inpatient Psychiatry: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects","authors":"Edward Kim","doi":"10.29046/JJP.006.2.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29046/JJP.006.2.010","url":null,"abstract":"Few aspects of psychiatric trammg are more troubling to beginning resid ents than the emerging awareness of their own co untertransferences. This is often viewed with a mixture of disgust and em barassment as a sign of incompetence and lack of professionalism. Conflicting views on th e or igi ns of, and appropriate responses to countertransference furth er add to the di fficul ty and anxiety of psyc hiatric training. The frustration a nd se nse of helplessness which often accompany these feelings can lead to disillusionment a nd various degrees of acting out which ul timately compromise patient ca re and resid e nt education. Ironicall y, th e feeling of being overwhelmed by co untertra nsference can often occur several months into a psychiatric resid ency. Once beginni ng residents have acquired th e basic clinical skills needed for acute diagnosis and treatment, subtler issues in patient management arise . The greate r degree of psychiatric patient contact and greater difficulty in maintaining professiona l distance through procedures and lab stud ies makes this inevitable. It is often no t until th e outpatient yea rs when residents begin to treat \" h igher func tion ing\" patients that psychodynamic ed ucatio n is deemed clinically useful. Co untertransference, like other psychodynamic topics, ma y be view ed as \" ir re leva nt\" to inpatient psychiatry, which emphasizes biological and behavioral inter ventio ns. At all levels of training, howe ver, acquiring a systematic understanding of cou ntertransfere nce ma y be one of the most anxiolytic and educat iona lly use ful advances a resident can make.","PeriodicalId":142486,"journal":{"name":"Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128537739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Intractable Alcoholism in a Patient with a Levine Shunt Levine分流术患者的顽固性酒精中毒
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/jjp.003.1.012
B. Blumenthal, H. Field, E. Gottheil, M. Guerra, W. Maddrey, R. Serota, E. Shaw
{"title":"Intractable Alcoholism in a Patient with a Levine Shunt","authors":"B. Blumenthal, H. Field, E. Gottheil, M. Guerra, W. Maddrey, R. Serota, E. Shaw","doi":"10.29046/jjp.003.1.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29046/jjp.003.1.012","url":null,"abstract":"Ellen S haw. M. D., Fellow in Hepatology: Mr. J is a fort y-six-year-old white male who was initially seen on th e medical service in July 1982. At that time he presented with hepatic encepha lopathy, jaundice, and ascites . A liver biopsy was per formed, confirming the clinica l diagnosis of a lcoholic hepati t is superimposed on cirrhosis. Following dischar ge it was difficult to mainta in Mr. J as an out patient. He did not follow dieta ry rest rictions or ta ke diur et ics as presc ribed . Addit iona lly he was unable to control his drinking. Fina lly about a yea r ago a Levine shunt was imp lanted in an effort to control his asci tes . Subsequently he did well for a period of several months. He was ab le to abstai n from alcohol with a resu lt ing decrease in his ascites and jaundice. Recent ly he has resu med drinking, with a retu rn of his sym ptoms. He has missed his last several appointments in the clinic. Co nt rol of his medical pro blem s rem ains problemat ic unless his alcohol abuse ca n be bett er controlled. Willis C. Maddrey , M.D., Maggey Prof essor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine: I a m grateful for th e opportunity to discuss thi s te rrible problem . I know this pat ient, as ma ny of you do. He is prototypical of a group of patients in whom cirrhosi s a nd a ll of its complicati ons induced by a lcohol has led to a complex situation that is a downw ard spira l. As Dr . Shaw relat ed , th is man developed cirrhosis, the major mani fest ati on of which was ascites. If he would trea t himself appropri at ely, that is to say, be a bsti nent and ta ke diuretics, in addit ion to his Levine shunt, then his life expecta ncy would be reasona ble, about ten yea rs. Once you get cirrhosis your life expecta ncy dr ops remarkabl y. But if Mr. J were to take care of himself he would probabl y be a ll right for about ten years . Our pro blem , therefore, is th is pa tient' s persist ent addiction to alcohol. As you know, when this patient dried out, he took a look a t his life and decid ed it was bett er to be an a lcoholic . T hat's our probl em . Wh at I would like to talk about is the pa rt I work with the most: the physica l consequences of a lcohol abuse . You are a ll aware of the stat ist ics, but they are wor th reviewing. A bout one in ten chronic a lcoholics will develop cir rhosis . A chronic alcoholic to a hepat ologist is someo ne who dr inks more than sixteen ounces of eighty-six proof whiskey or its equivalent a day. I'm not using a socia l definition . T here a re people who are imp aired a t less tha n that and ot her s who are not a t much more than tha t. In fact, I have a number of pa tients with minimal liver abnorm alit ies in whom I'm relat ively ce rtain tha t they're telling me the truth when the y tell me the y","PeriodicalId":142486,"journal":{"name":"Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115787894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Antidepressant Pharmacotherapy: Prescription Practices in Psychiatric Resident Care 抗抑郁药物治疗:精神病住院治疗的处方实践
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/JJP.019.1.003
R. Dew, Vaughn McCall
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Climbing through the Milwaukee County Civil Commitment Process 通过密尔沃基县民事承诺程序
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/jjp.011.2.007
Jon A. Lehrmann
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So Much Success, So Little Joy 成功太多,快乐太少
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/jjp.011.1.007
D. Gerstman
{"title":"So Much Success, So Little Joy","authors":"D. Gerstman","doi":"10.29046/jjp.011.1.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29046/jjp.011.1.007","url":null,"abstract":"This biography was published in 1989 as a tribute to C harles Schultz's fortiet h anniversary of publishing Peanuts. The longevity of his ca r too n and th e fact th at he has drawn eac h strip by himself is unique. His characte rs a re known in eve ry contine nt and their trials and tribulations a re translated into ove r twe nty la nguages every day. So why would I recommend this book to th e ge neral pu blic, and to psychiatrist s and m ental health professionals in pa rt icul ar? Becau se in this authoriz ed biography, Rheta Grimsley J ohnson, a nation ally ren owned syndicated columnist , shows how a man do es not hav e to be crippled by his mental illness and how thi s man in particul ar could not have becom e what he is today without coming to terms with agorophobia a nd depression . The ea rly chapte rs describe how Schultz grew up in Minnea polis as an only child who was close to his mother and fa the r. Significa n t mil eston es from his life are ment ioned , in pa rticul ar th ose whi ch see m to be reflect ed in Peanuts. For example, th e whole family moved to Nee dles, California during the Grea t Depression whil e his fa t he r looked for work , eve ntually moving back to Minneapolis whe re he graduated from high school. In sch ool he was a C stude n t with very few friends, spe ndi ng most of his lun ch hours by himself a nd feeling intimidated by th e others. A whole chapter is devot ed to th e woman on whom The Little Red H aired Girl is based. We see th at his popular charac te r Charlie Brown re flec ts som e of Schultz's own ex periences and feelings. The crit ica l point in his life, according to Johnson , was his draft in to World Wa r II th e same week that his mother died fr om ca nce r . H e never had th e opportunity to say goo d-bye to his mother and according to J ohnson, thi s was a n issu e he never succes sfully re solved. H e returned from th e war a nd soug ht work as a n a rt illust ra tor and as a fr ee lan ce ca r toonist for newspapers whil e waiting for his big chance to be publish ed in a major newspap er. The middle chapte rs furn ish more detail on how Schultz was ab le to get Peanuts publish ed and eventually known in every corner of th e globe. The remaining chapte rs show what day to day ope ra tio ns a re curre n t ly like with Schultz working in his stud io in Sa nta Clara, Califo rn ia . J ohnson mak es clear referen ces through out thi s boo k to th e fact that Schult z","PeriodicalId":142486,"journal":{"name":"Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122885732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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In Response: A Practical Approach to the Assessment and Management of Psychiatric Emergencies 回应:一种评估和管理精神紧急情况的实用方法
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.29046/jjp.008.1.011
W. Dubin
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